I must confess that the reason you have all been taken to the "Edit my profile" page in the last week has been because we wanted more people to fill out more of their profiles and presenting the profile editing page after login is a standard way to do that.
If you don't want to fill out any more then you don't have to. The normal menu bar is at the top of the page so you can still go anywhere from there.
Anyway, it was only for a week and I've changed it now so you get taken to the main menu page, as before. It'll probably happen again in a few months time so now you know, you won't be surprised.
As for the other problem with appearing to be logged out when you are actually logged in, that could be down to a corrupt cookie.
If you are running Windows XP, shut down your browser and go to C:/Documents and settings/YOURUSERNAME/Cookies. Delete all cookies. Then restart your browser and log in again.
I'm not sure how to do this with Vista or other operating systems but maybe someone else can enlighten us.
Huggies,
Katie x
Success is the ability to go from one failure to the next without any loss of enthusiasm!